cream cheese and spinach ravioli

If you have started to make your own fresh pasta, then you may be looking for some ideas for meals you can make with your creation. I have recently got a pasta making machine and the first meal I wanted to create was a ravioli using some of our favourite family ingredients. I decided to make a cream cheese and spinach ravioli with a garlic mushroom butter and salad. It is relatively easy to make, just a bit fiddly. Here is how to make a cream cheese and spinach ravioli with a garlic mushroom butter.

Ingredients for Pasta

10 oz/ 280 g pasta flour or plain flour

4 eggs

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp salt

1 beaten egg for sealing the ravioli

Ingredients for the Spinach and Ricotta Filling

250g tub of cream cheese

2 large handfuls of spinach, chopped

Black pepper

Ingredients for Garlic Mushroom Butter

6 button mushrooms, finely chopped

2 oz butter

3 cloves of garlic

1 tsp olive oil

How to Make Fresh Pasta

Measure out the flour and add the salt. Mix together.

Tip the flour and salt onto the work surface in a heap and make a well in the middle.

Add the eggs and the olive oil to the centre of the well.

Start to bind the mixture together using your hand and working in a little more flour each time.